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Isaac was walking past the Yoshitoki clan house when Taki had appeared inside the house. At the first Isaac didn't notice, he was on his way home. The sky today was also beaming with life as was the forest around the clan house. The sky was bright blue, birds flew together in a V formation, insects could be distinctly heard from grass below the trees as well as in the tree branches. He had been to the town market that had been up today, he was carrying several bags, supporting them against his chest. Due to the bags he could barely see what was in front of him but Isaac was managing somehow to work his way home. He carried on a few paces, his steps making little to no noise. This is what he had been trained to do for missions but the technique eventually worked it's way into some sort of passive technique; it wasn't very hard of a technique so he decided to do it all the time.

Isaac's ears pricked up slightly at the sound of the wood being stepped on, not enough to alert him but enough to draw his attention to the empty Yoshitoki clan house. The front door of the clan house was now open. This was odd considering no one had been in the house since his aunt had died and his cousins left for travelling. Isaac frowned slightly at the thought of this as it reminded him of his deceased cousin, Touou. He had heard about it a couple of days before he took his own life, the loss of his mother must have been too great for him.. Isaac then began to consider what he would do if his own mother would succumb to the same fate. He didn't want to think about it, what mattered now was who was in the clan house?

He put the bags he was carrying on the ground in front of him, strolling up to the main door of the clan house. His clothes wavered in the wind behind him, as if the house was trying to blow him away from entering. He pushed open the door abit further, the creaking of the door echoed through the worn out house. He walked down the main hallway a bit quicker now, checking the rooms as he went past. No sign of anyone yet, that was until he peered into the room of one Takimoto Yoshitoki. To his surprise, Isaac was staring at the sleeping corpse of his oldest cousin. He was shocked to see Taki back but at the same time was very happy at the sight of him. His cousin was currently asleep on his bed, his travelling must've been very tiring if he had slumped onto his bed. Isaac smiled slightly as he walked into the doorway, leaning to his right hand side and against the door frame. Taki had changed slightly from the last time he had seen him, he couldn't really put his finger on it. There was just something different about him. Isaac fought a silent battle in his mind about whether or not he, himself had changed since he had last seen Taki. He had definetly become taller than he was before and a bit more maturer.. He liked to think.

He stood there for a few minutes, wondering whether he should wake him up to greet his cousin or rather let him sleep and regain his energy that had been lost in his time travelling.

Footsteps... Takimoto could hear them in the background. They were faint, almost silent, but still... It felt like waterdrops in the Yoshitoki's ears, his eyes slowly opening as his first vision was blurry, the world around him still being built by his mind. He presses his palms against the bed, pushing himself up and noticing a figure in front of him. Taki doesn't recognize it at first, his vision still not being able to focus, the person in front of the Chuunin being slighly taller and older than before... This said because Takimoto saw something familiar in it, yet there was not actually something that catched that memory and solved the puzzle.

Then, gluing piece by piece, Takimoto recognized that old familiar face. It had been a while since he last saw his young cousin. It was comforting for the Yoshitoki to find Isaac. For the Chuunin, there was a slight glitter of hope in his eyes, knowing there was a future for the Clan...

"Isaac-kun... It's been a while... You've grown!"

Taki was still lightheaded, waking up from his few hours sleep. Oddly enough, the Yoshitoki could feel himself revitalized and completely rested.

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The Burning Flames of the Yoshitoki Will RiseThey Shall Consume Our FoesGuide and Nurture Our AlliesBeware The Howl of the Full MoonFor It Shall Mark The End...We Are Wolves, We Are HumanWe Are Legends And Myths AlikeWe... Are Yoshitoki...

Isaac stared back into the eyes of his cousin, even if his vision had become blurred from getting up too fast. He was slightly surprised that his cousin was able to wake due to the sound of his footsteps, this reminded him that everything needed to be trained relentlessly if he was going to one day surpass his cousin. He smiled as Taki seemed to be dazed by his arrival, as Isaac was of Taki's. He compared the heights of him and his cousin and his face lit up with a bright smile. The young genin was catching up to the chuunin, height-wise. Isaac's eyes gleamed a bright green, showing a window into his emotions and what was seen would be the emotion of happiness. Isaac walked closer to his cousin now, his feet now made light noises as his shoes knocked against the wooden floor. His concentration had now been put away from them and onto his cousin. He wanted to ask a lot of things to his cousin but decided to pick one that would start off the conversation.

"Thank you cousin. You, yourself, look like you've grown in the time we have been apart. Now, how was your mission? Was it succesful?"

Next Isaac would ask the question he had wanted to ask to his cousin for a long time now. He hoped his cousin would answer positively as it would give him a better chance of him answering positively again to the question that was coming up for him.

Takimoto smiled gently at his cousin, slowly reaching his right hand to the top of Isaac's head and patting it, messing up with the younger Yoshitoki's hair. He nodded once, his face's expression being enough to answer the Genin's question, yet Taki wanted to speak out, share his thoughts with his cousin. But first, he needed to get up and stretch. The Chuunin slid out of his bed and stretched his arms up, yawning heavilly and then rubbing his eyes with both hands. He would look once more at Isaac and pat his own stomach as it growled misteriously.

"Success... The ANBU HQ of Sunagakure doesn't even know what hit it. I believe the Hokage will be happy with the development of the mission. And you? What have you been doing since last time we met?"

The Yoshitoki found his clothes in the middle of the floor and picked them up, starting to dress himself up with the Chuunin uniform of always. As he did so, Taki was paying close attention to what his little cousin was about to say. It had been a long time... The young teenager couldn't wait to hear his family's news... Apart from Touou's death... Of course...

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The Burning Flames of the Yoshitoki Will RiseThey Shall Consume Our FoesGuide and Nurture Our AlliesBeware The Howl of the Full MoonFor It Shall Mark The End...We Are Wolves, We Are HumanWe Are Legends And Myths AlikeWe... Are Yoshitoki...

He winced slightly as his cousin rested his hand upon his head. Isaac wasn't to keen on being patronised in this way, he didn't like to be thought of a kid anymore. He wanted to on par with the other adults now.. He only knew one way he could prove this. He laughed slightly, raising his hand up to his lip in an attempt to hide it. He was happy that the mission had gone well but then again he didn't like the fact that his cousin was taking part in a mission that involves attacking another village. Missions like that usually lead up to revenge, which results in the death of someone for their revenge to be quenched. This is what made his laughter stop. He then raised his head slightly, following his cousin's movements.

"Well nothing much has changed since you last left. Mother has returned to her old self now since after the incident.. The incident involving Touou hit her hard aswell.."

He paused for a moment as their was quite a bit of sadness in the tone of his voice as he finished off what he was saying. His mother missed Touou alot feeling as if she was the only thing left of a mother figure to him, she had the idea she had failed in supporting him.

"Apart from that i've been mostly running chores for her now, there's a lot to do in the house now since we built the extention to our house. We've begun to rent out the extra rooms to travellers, it's a good source of income and i've been able to meet a lot of interesting people. Don't think that i've forgotten about the training though, i've been training with the claws you gave me in the yard ever since you left"

With this said he moved his hands to his back pockets, the claws his cousin had gave him were strapped to the back of his belt. The claws faced inwards towards his rear, making them easy to slip on if he reached his hands behind his back. He performed this swift action in front of his cousin so that it would empthasis his point about him practicing. He waved his right hand claw in the air above him, clicking them against each other to make a high pitched note.

Takimoto grinned at his own words, rubbing the left side of his neck with his right hand as he tilted his head and popped the neck gently. The Yoshitoki made a few steps to the door and his eyes narrowed at the first sight of the sun, then he made his way to the yard located in the middle of the house, smiling as the sakura tree in the corner had grown and its petals blossomed beautifuly. Taki turned himself to his bedroom, his cousin still there when the Chuunin made him a signal to come and bring the two swords placed by his chest.

"If you don't mind... I'd like to test you now, little cousin..."

The shinobi let out a slight chuckle as he waited for his cousin to walk towards the yard, so that they would have a little spar. Taki wouldn't take a no for an answer, for he was also looking forward to see what did that mission do to him in a matter of improvements.

(post here, then we continue in our training grounds)

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The Burning Flames of the Yoshitoki Will RiseThey Shall Consume Our FoesGuide and Nurture Our AlliesBeware The Howl of the Full MoonFor It Shall Mark The End...We Are Wolves, We Are HumanWe Are Legends And Myths AlikeWe... Are Yoshitoki...

Isaac grinned widely in return to his cousin's grin, following his movements closely. He knew straight away what his cousin wanted as he walked towards the yard of the clan house. The only time he would go out there was to train and seeing as how he hadn't seen him for a while now Isaac knew he would want a spar of some sort. Reaching his hands back to his back pockets he clipped his claws back into place, ready to be equipped. The young Yoshitoki watched his cousin walk outside and gesture for him to follow with the two swords, nodding at this he walked up to the two swords that rested on the chest. He grabbed one in either hand, tossing the one in his right upwards and catching it again. They were very nice swords, he had practiced some swordplay but not much.

Isaac walked out into the Yoshitoki yard, the swords in hand. He walked up to his cousin, awaiting some further instructions about what kind of spar he wanted. Would he want to had a sword spar or maybe with the claws? Either way he was ready.

"Well cousin, what kind of test are you thinking of unleashing on me?"